| Authors: |
Shapiro, Barbara A., 1951-
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Art -- Forgeries -- Fiction.
Art forgers -- Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Gardner, Isabella Stewart,1840-1924 -- Fiction.
Degas, Edgar,1834-1917 -- Fiction.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012. |
| Description: |
360 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781616201326 1616201320 |
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| Summary: |
Boston painter Claire Roth has survived financially by painting reproductions, so when influential gallery owner Aiden Markel arrives with a bizarre proposal--her own show if she will forge a copy of a Degas, one of the pictures stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum--she says yes. As she works, Claire and Aiden become lovers, but she doesn't tell him about her discovery that the stolen Degas is itself a copy. This knowledge is Claire's lifeline when the finished forgery is discovered, Aiden and then Claire are both arrested, and only she can save them. |